MindMe
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1) don't pick up used furniture
2) Freezing will kill them but it has to be a solid 2+ weeks of freezing. Most insects can recover nicely from a couple days of freezing.
3) Heating works but you need 2+ hours of 40c. Not everything heats up evenly and you have to pretty much heat up the whole building. If it gets too warm in one local area for a bed bug, it will simply scurry away.
4) If you travel, don't put your luggage etc on a bed. Bed bugs like to live close to their source of food, ie you. You luggage is a great place for them to hide and go home with you.
http://membracid.wordpress.com/2008/09/18/how-to-inspect-your-hotel-room-for-bed-bugs/
5) Don't believe the hype that "if we only brought back ddt!" etc. Bed bugs are back, in part, because they've developed huge resistance to most chemical pesticides, like DDT.
6) There are a billion hucksters out there trying to sell you woo like sonic devices or homeopathic blah blah. If there was a simple solution, it would be flying off the shelves of Canadian Tire, not being sold by a witch doctor's flyer on the side of a bus shelter.
7) Trust academic sources for advice, not woo crap like whale.to or Natural News.
http://www.ca.uky.edu/entomology/entfacts/ef636.asp
2) Freezing will kill them but it has to be a solid 2+ weeks of freezing. Most insects can recover nicely from a couple days of freezing.
3) Heating works but you need 2+ hours of 40c. Not everything heats up evenly and you have to pretty much heat up the whole building. If it gets too warm in one local area for a bed bug, it will simply scurry away.
4) If you travel, don't put your luggage etc on a bed. Bed bugs like to live close to their source of food, ie you. You luggage is a great place for them to hide and go home with you.
http://membracid.wordpress.com/2008/09/18/how-to-inspect-your-hotel-room-for-bed-bugs/
5) Don't believe the hype that "if we only brought back ddt!" etc. Bed bugs are back, in part, because they've developed huge resistance to most chemical pesticides, like DDT.
6) There are a billion hucksters out there trying to sell you woo like sonic devices or homeopathic blah blah. If there was a simple solution, it would be flying off the shelves of Canadian Tire, not being sold by a witch doctor's flyer on the side of a bus shelter.
7) Trust academic sources for advice, not woo crap like whale.to or Natural News.
http://www.ca.uky.edu/entomology/entfacts/ef636.asp